Anxiety therapists in McKenzie, Tennessee TN
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Anxiety or Fears
LAH Therapy Services
Marriage and Family Therapist, Ph.D., LMFT, CAS, EMDR-2
I have done training on anxiety and the fears that drive anxiety. Often it is related to issues that we can use EMDR to have movement. But regardless, it is important for the client to fee safe and be ready to do the work.
35 Years Experience
Online in McKenzie, Tennessee
Anxiety or Fears
Dr. Jeffrey Huttman
Psychologist, Ph.D.
As a licensed psychologist, I specialize in treating anxiety and related difficulties. I utilize an eclectic blend of CBT, DBT, mindfulness and relaxation techniques to help guide those struggling to feel relief.
21 Years Experience
Online in McKenzie, Tennessee
Anxiety or Fears
Jayson L. Mystkowski
Psychologist, Ph.D., ABPP
While Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders (e.g., Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), clinicians do see some “return of fear,” or partial relapse, in some patients due to a variety of factors. Over the past two decades, treatment researchers, with whom Dr. Jayson Mystkowski had the pleasure of working with at UCLA for over 10 years, have studied “return of fear” and discovered some key variables that may optimize the effects of learning during CBT for anxiety disorders (Craske et al., 2008).
First, evidence suggests that focusing on tolerating fear versus eliminating fear yields better clinical outcomes in the long term. Namely, teaching clients that fear and anxiety are normal feelings, rather than attempting to “down-regulate” such feelings all the time, is more realistic and seems to engender “hardier” clients. Second, helping clients to generate an expectancy that “scary things will not happen,” is very powerful. To do this, it is important for clinicians to create more complex exposure exercises (i.e., tasks in which a client confronts a stimulus of which they are afraid), using multiple feared stimuli instead of one at a time. Then, the lack of a feared outcome becomes particularly surprising and memorable for a client and fear reduction is more potent. Third, increasing the accessibility and retrievability of non-fear memories learned during treatment are powerful factors in mitigating against a return of fear. Craske and colleagues demonstrated that exposure to variations of a feared stimulus, using a random schedule across multiple contexts or situations, is more effective than exposure to the same stimulus, on a predictable schedule, in an unchanging environment. The former paradigm, it is argued, creates stronger non-fear memories that are easier for a client to access when subsequently confronting feared objects or situations outside of the therapy context, than the later scenario.
In sum, clinicians have long been aware that some fear or anxiety returns following very successful CBT treatment. As mentioned above, there are some clear, empirically supported ways to modify the therapy we provide to further help clients generalize the gains made in therapy sessions to the real world.
20 Years Experience
Online in McKenzie, Tennessee
Anxiety or Fears
Jamie Suarez
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-MHSP, CSAT Candidate, C-DBT
Unhealthy fears and anxieties are usually lies based on a lack of information or false predictions of what may come. One by one therapy examines the evidence and dismantles the untruth that anxiety gives us. Through this work confidence is instilled and anxiety becomes less and less a part of life.
17 Years Experience
Online in McKenzie, Tennessee
Anxiety or Fears
Theresa M. Boutross
Marriage and Family Therapist, LCSW, CADC. CMFT
As a Certified Specialist in the treatment of anxiety I will assist you in becoming more mindful of how your brain communicates with itself and how self triggering can increase your anxiety responses to fight, flee or freeze. My goal is to help you create new brain pathways for a more joyful and productive life.
25 Years Experience
Online in McKenzie, Tennessee